Worth noting that the last social blogging platform I was part of — Xanga, up to about 2006-07 — hosted 30+ million users in a format not unlike Hive.
It was literally social blogging; a marriage of writing and engagement, much like Hive. Back then the number of Internet users was barely one billion...
Wow, what happened to Xanga?
Did it exist at the same time as Steemit? Or did it preceed Steemit?